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The best and most productive employees are likely to be ________.

  1. the least costly in terms of recruitment and employment costs

  2. a matter of pot luck in terms of recruitment decision

  3. the most costly to employer

  4. have no bearing on recruitment and selection costs


Correct Option: C

What strategies deployed by HR for attracting potential candidates to apply for vacancies might result in indirect discrimination?

  1. Advert in local press

  2. Word of mouth

  3. Now recruiting banners/notices

  4. Agency or job centre


Correct Option: B

_______goes a long way towards building up an available workplace.

  1. Recruitment

  2. Selecton

  3. Planning

  4. Organizing


Correct Option: B

By medical examination the enterprise gets benefited as ________.

  1. it projects communicable diseases

  2. it determines the total cost enterprise has to bear on this executive

  3. it prevents the organization against unwanted claims

  4. both a & c


Correct Option: D

A prospecting job application letter ___________.

  1. is the appropriate type of letter if you are responding to a job announcement

  2. should follow the direct writing plan for persuasive messages

  3. should not name a specific position for which you are applying since you do not know what job opening the company has

  4. should not begin by asking for the job in the first paragraph


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is NOT appropriate for the design and layout of a resume?

  1. Additional white space to offset important information.

  2. Placing the education section before the work experience section.

  3. Using several colours to point out sections and sub-sections.

  4. Including bullet lists to showcase a series of related pieces of information.


Correct Option: C

You have written the following description of your work as a retail store manager, attend corporate meetings, prepare employee work schedules, account for daily sales, train new managers, and clean the store.  On your resume, the phrase clean the store should be __________.

  1. put first in the series to emphasise it

  2. put in the middle of the series to deemphasise

  3. keep where it is to deemphasise it

  4. kept where it is to emphasise it


Correct Option: B

Employers will be MOST likely to reject resumes that __________.

  1. are more the one page long

  2. do not include the name of the company the person is applying to

  3. contain grammatical or spelling errors

  4. present experience and credentials in reverse chronological order


Correct Option: C

The purpose of a job application letter is __________.

  1. to get a job offer

  2. to get an interview

  3. to get information about what the day-to-day work involved in a specific position

  4. to substitute for a resume


Correct Option: B

Which of the following questions is NOT appropriate for an information interview?

  1. When will you be retiring?

  2. How do you spend your typical day?

  3. What do you like least about your job?

  4. What course would you recommend as preparation for this kind of work?


Correct Option: A